2025 Volume 7 Pages 54-64
In freshmen and seniors in Kyushu Sangyo University, we analyzed body mass index (BMI) and experience of disturbance of consciousness. Those who showed BMI less than 22 were more prevalent in women than in men, and those who showed BMI equal to or more than 22 were more prevalent in men than in women. Annual change in the prevalence of lean persons, BMI less than 18.5, however, was statistically significantly increasing in men. Those who experienced disturbance of consciousness were decreasing from 2003. From 2014, we asked the students the causes of disturbance of consciousness, that is, epilepsy and non-epileptic nature. This may influence the answer. As for the non-epileptic nature, it was more prevalent in women than in men. In those who experienced non-epileptic disturbance of consciousness, BMI was more frequently less than 18.5. Furthermore, those who eat breakfast almost everyday was less prevalent in students with BMI less than 18.5 and students with non-epileptic disturbance of consciousness.
